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  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: G. PRESTON SMITH (with comments by Mrs. Smith) I NTERV I ErlER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Smith's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Smith, let's begin with your background briefly and how you came to San Marcos
  • Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • . As I've said, I have been teaching since I was 19, and I feel that this is a great way to serve humanity. So after I made the race for Lt. Gov. and led the primary by 87,000 votes over Preston Smith (later Governor), he defeated me something like 46,000
  • /show/loh/oh Watson -- II -- 11 This was also in 1962 the year that Preston Smith ran for lieutenant governor and was elected, and I had been helpful in that campaign and for all the involvements that I usually had in statewide offices and state
  • something to do with it when Preston Smith first ran for Lieutenant Governor. He, of course, had been pretty friendly to Texas Tech and so had Mr. Carter. There wasn't anybody else in that race they particularly liked, so they supported him. Of course
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
  • as I enter my speech class--shall I put in the punctuation? M: Well, no, you don't need punctuation. L: The class is normally presided over by the elderly and Jolly G. Preston Smith, but today a tall young man with black curly hair and a confident
  • that the sober side of the city will assert itself and that we won't have that contingent ferment. F: Our Governor Preston Smith is not altogether noted for deep wisdom, but we had a ceremony there that I attended about a month ago in which the French had named
  • that he was undertaking and sold it. I don't know. Whether he did or not, [Preston] Smith appointed him on the mortuary board later on after the Negroes got to be fairly popular. G: Anything else on Johnson and East Texas politics that you feel
  • the class. Would you contrast his style of teaching and coaching to that of his predecessor, I think it was G. Preston Smith. L: His predecessor was G. Preston Smith. Smith was a very plump, red- faced man, who apparently belonged to a very old school
  • G. Preston Smith; LBJ as debate coach; M.E. Foster; banquets; debates; Johnson family; classes; Uncle George; tournaments; LBJ as Congressional secretary; Dick Kleberg; office procedures; Dodge Hotel; Corpus Christi law office; House votes; Mrs
  • the governor controlled it. I noticed the other day, and I know for a fact that he hasn't always been a great friend of Smith's, the present governor of Texas-B: Preston Smith. E: Yes. I noticed the other day he made a statement of what a great man Preston
  • McPherson; George Reedy; Lee White; LBJ as VP under JFK; John Connally; Preston Smith; Bobby Baker; Lady Bird Special, 1964; NSC 1965; escalation in Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; dissenting group in the White House; John Stennis; LBJ's decision not to run
  • ; and a· ~·. couple of others .. Another plane full of congressmen and dignitaries · came dowri. We were met at the.[LBJ] Ranch with the Governor [Preston Smith] of the state and a lot of the other state -officials. : dedication. We had a wonderful It was 92 degrees
  • technique to go to these small towns, because Governor Preston Smith in this last campaign went back to the technique of going to all corrmunities, just making them all and doing a lot of handshaking. is not a bad technique at all. This Congressman Johnson
  • that period? T: Yes. The Lieutenant Governor, \vho Has then Preston Smith--notl1 the Governor--had been invited to take part in some of the activities around the State; and had some reason I."hy he could not participate. upon receiving the notice, we
  • I went to work for Mr. [Connally]. Governor] campaign. Well, I worked in the [Connally for I ran for lieutenant governor in the first primary in 1962 and of course was defeated by the present Governor Preston Smith. He beat me. There were five
  • of this group that really runs Dallas--what do they call it, the Council--? B: Business Men's Council, or something like that. W: Preston Smith was in his office
  • committees because they both said that they didn't want to be out at night. So you can see how I landed on the appropriations committee. F: Right. B: Well, I never will forget--in 1947 I was chairman of the subcommittee on higher education. Preston Smith